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| See comment for husband, Jacques Remy. -LH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Either the birth/death dates of this family is off, or Magdalene may not have been the mother of Jacques Remy's three children. Although I'm adding this comment under Jacques Remy's family card, my reasoning hinges upon Magdalene's birth date. The first discrepancy is that if she was indeed born in 1566, then she was only seven years old when she married Jacques Remy (1559). According to the birth date for Magdalene I've found in others' research, she was about twenty years old (b. 1566) when her husband, Jacques, and son, Matthias, were killed (in 1585/86). If Magdalene was only twenty, then biologically speaking, in 1585/1586 her children could have been no more than babies, or very young children. If her sons, Matthias and Pierre, were killed for their Huguenot beliefs, as is stated, and another son, Jacob, "fled" to Germany, then it seems to me that these three boys would have to have been at least teens, if not young men when these things occurred -- unless religious zealots would have murdered children, which is certainly not outside the realm of possibility. If Matthias (died 1585/86) and Pierre (died ?) were killed as children, then Pierre cannot have been the son of Jacques Remy and Magadalene and still have been the father of Jacques "Jacob" Remy who is my American ancestor, as he would not have had the opportunity to marry and have children of his own. The only possible solution which would agree with the dates we have is that Matthias was killed as a child, while Jacques grew to manhood and fled to Germany (although other records say he was in Germany by 1558). Pierre also lived through childhood, stayed behind in France to marry and reproduce, but was later martyred. [LKH] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Due to his religious faith, Jacques, as well as son Matthias, were murdered by Catholic zealots in 1585. The family became Huguenots and were killed around 1600 in France.104 A Brief Overview of the Huguenot Persecution By the middle of the 16th century, the Huguenots by their numbers and influence had aroused the fears of the Catholic party and the powerful family of Guise. Eight separate religious wars followed. The Huguenot wars ended in 1598, when Henry IV (who had been a Huguenot but who had agreed to conform to the Roman Catholic church) issued the Edict of Nantes. This gave the French Protestants political rights and religious freedom. The Huguenots were still harassed and persecuted from time to time. When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, all protection of law was withdrawn from the Huguenots. Although they were forbidden to leave France, hundreds of thousands fled. They carried French arts, manufacturers, and culture to England, Germany, the Netherlands, and the British colonies of North America. They were of all social classes, from the peasant to the noble....artisans, cloth-makers, lace-makers, silk-weavers, glass-makers,printers and manufacturers. Their skill, industry and worth secured recognition and prosperity. There is hardly a branch of literature, science and art in which they have not distinguished themselves. Their descendants may still, to this day, be numerously identified by family name. France lost hundreds of thousands of Huguenots who carried industry, intelligence and prosperity, light, truth and happiness to other lands, including America. An equal number of huguenots was killed or perished in their attemps to escape. The history of the religious persecution of the Huguenots in France, from the massacre of St. Bartholomew to the infamous outrages which preceded and followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, has been thoroughly documented. 102 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 28 Aug 2001 | Created 8 Feb 2007 Laura K. Henderson |
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